Dae Jo Yung

The KBS historical drama series "Dae Jo-young" ended Sunday after 134 episodes.

Launched in September last year and running for 15 months, the hit drama commanded weekend ratings of over 30 percent.

In a KBS/AGB Nielsen Media Research tally, ratings posted 36.8% for the 130th Dec. 9 episode.

In the final episode Sunday, the portrayal of the Balhae kingdom gaining amity with China's Tang dynasty's impressed the viewers. Many reportedly shed tears when Dae Jo-young (played by Choi Soo-jong) had to part ways with his son (Jeong Tae-woo).

The episode recorded 33.3% viewer ratings (AGB Nielsen Media), 5.2% point higher than Saturday, in the successful conclusion.

source: kbs global

Drama City New Face Cast

Actress Park Chae-gyeong, who played "tough girl" Min Sagang in the recently concluded KBS 2TV drama 'I am Sam,' has been cast as the heroine of KBS's "Drama City."

The teen sports drama is about teens who spent their childhood in an orphanage participating in a ball game to win prize money to prevent their orphanage from getting demolished.

'Tae-hee,' whom Park plays, is a big help and mentor to fellow orphanage residents and also develops a romance with one of them.
Park is a fast rising star, winning exclusive commercial deals with Asiana Airlines and Nadry Cosmetics. Her delicate emotional acting in 'I am Sam' has also contributed to her acting career

source: kbs global

Thank You

Genre: Melodrama, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2007-Mar-21 to 2007-May-10
Air time: Wednesdays & Thursdays 21:55

cast
Jang Hyuk as Min Ki Seo
Gong Hyo Jin as Lee Young Shin
Shin Sung Rok as Choi Suk Hyun
Kim Sung Eun as Suh Eun Hee
Synopsis

Dr. Min Ki Seo went to Blue Island to fulfill his deceased girlfriend's last wish to find the single mother and her little girl who was infected by HIV and to apologize to them on her behalf as she had unknowingly given the girl tainted blood when she was being treated at the hospital. Lee Young Shin, the single mom, was having a hard time caring for her grandfather who has Alzeimer's and keeping her daughter's HIV condition a secret while teaching her how to live with it. Min Ki Seo was an arrogant person who looked down on people and in meeting Lee Young Shin who accepted her fate and tried to make the best of it despite all odds, he slowly changed for the better and became a warm and caring person.

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